Cathe Friedrich's Power Hour + MIS & Body Max DVD Review

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(More customer reviews)This is one of the best workouts I own. Power Hour is a high rep muscle endurance workout that is chaptered into body parts: Legs (squats), Shoulders, Chest, Back, Biceps, & Triceps. There is also an extra leg segment for lunges. The warm up (5 minutes) is also weight work- lighter weights and not as many reps. The workout itself is 40 minutes with a 6 minute ab segment and 3 minute stretch. An all around good workout.
Body Max is a combination of cardio and weights. There is a light cardio warm-up (8 min.), a 24 minute step aerobic segment with fairly complex choreography, a 19 minute power circuit interval segment (this is tough!), and a 34 minute upper body muscle conditioning segment (warning- she inserts push-ups in the middle of the chest segment when your muscles are already exhausted). The ab segment is 10 minutes! which I think is a bit too long but that's because I hate ab work. There is a cooldown in the middle and a stretch at the end. I really have never done this work out all the way through because it is long and it is a difficult workout to do all at once. I use the muscle conditioning segment as an add-on to some of my shorter cardio workouts and I do the power circuit intervals segment on days when I really want to be challenged and tack on some weight work to round it out. I attempted the step segment once and the choreography was too complex for me to follow and it was really fast paced so I haven't tried it since. If you are already familiar with Cathe's style of step, then you should not have a problem with the step workout.
Maximum Intensity Strength is another total body workout. I have never done this workout all the way through either but I break up the chapters into push-pull type combinations and add them on to my longer cardio workouts. There is a 6 min warm-up w/ step, 18 minutes of leg/butt work, 8 min. of chest, 7 min. of back, 7 min. of shoulders, 6 min. of biceps, 7 min. of triceps, another marathon 10 min. of abs, and a 3 min stretch.

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Power Hour is a total body muscular endurance workout using a barbell and dumbbellsYou'll begin with a warm up, then target a major muscle group and work it to exhaustion.To do this, each muscle group will engage in high repetitions and a series of various weighted movement patterns.To get superior results, you will need to find the most challenging weight possible yet still maintain good form and alignment.You'll complete the workout with a relaxing stretch.This workout promotes good posture, improved muscle tone, strengthens your core region (the body's center of power), and promotes functional fitness.It's an all around winner workout! Maximum Intensity Strength is a 75 minute advanced muscular conditioning video.This workout requires the use of a barbell, dumbbells and a Step. Cathe has structured the workout to target all the major muscle groups beginning with the larger muscle groups first. Each muscle group is worked to exhaustion before moving on to the next.This super challenging workout concludes with an intense 10 minute abdominal routine. BodyMax is a completely different type of workout with the emphasis on aerobics and endurance. A step, barbell and dumbbells are used. This cross-training workout begins with 24 minutes of simple but intense step aerobics.The circuit section in the middle of the workout , is approx. 20 min & will provide you with a "shock your metabolism" effect since it consists of 5 cycles - each one moving quickly from high intensity step - to plyo step - to a very brief recovery and immediately into leg work with weights. The 3rd section is20 min. and provides an all-out-non stop- upper body-weight workout. Cathe then takes you through a 7 min. killer ab routine and stretch. Body Max is a cross training workout within itself. We suggest you use this on a day that you want to target and condition every major muscle in your body but also want to get an intense cardio workout.

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